écrevisses
\e.kʁə.vis\
The verdict
“écrevisses” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,115
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de écrevisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrevisses · écrevisses · French
écrevisses · rank #47,115 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,115
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échéancier
Nearest frequency peer: échéancier (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écrevisses”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- échoppes
échoppes
52,889 corpus weight
- échoués
échoués
52,888 corpus weight
- échéancier
échéancier
52,887 corpus weight
- écrevisses
écrevisses
52,886 corpus weight
- édifiante
édifiante
52,885 corpus weight
- édiles
édiles
52,884 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écrevisses” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrevisses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁə.vis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrevisses” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around écrevisses (IPA \e.kʁə.vis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,115 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de écrevisse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrevisses, with forms such as "cérevisses", "ecrevisses", and "éccrevisses". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "écrevisse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écrevisses, spelled É-C-R-E-V-I-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écrevisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrevisses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment se fait-il que l’Alhambra de nougat conserve intactes ses délicates aiguilles et ne tombe pas en ruines, que la compote soit assez patiente pour ne pas s’évader à travers les barreaux de pâte de la tarte, que le saint-honoré tremblant et mollasse ne devienne pas une informe bouillie semblable à de la neige longtemps piétinée, que le godiveau, cont…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérevisses
- ecrevisses
- éccrevisses
- écervisses
- écreivsses
- écrevisess
- écrevissess
- écrevissse
- écrevsises
- écrevvisses
- écrrevisses
- écrveisses
- ércevisses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrevisses - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrevisses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "écrevisse". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #47,115 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "É" letter cohort. É–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.